resentful - Story 117579 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The scent of the bakery, once a source of comfort, now filled him with a feeling akin to nausea. He saw Leo, the boy he used to share cookies with, across the room. He didn't recognize him.

He’d tried to be casual, to be friendly, but the polite blankness had shut him down. The emptiness he was feeling was taking over.

He needed to breathe. He threw the pastry he bought into the trash and left. The warmth of the sun outside couldn't penetrate the ice in his veins.

Emotion: resentful

Cluster: Shame / Guilt

PC1 (Valence): -1.47 Negative

PC2 (Disposition): 1.50

Role in Research

This story is one of 1,000 stories generated for the emotion resentful. During extraction, it was fed through Gemma4-31B and its hidden state activations were captured at 11 layers.

The mean activation across all 1,000 resentful stories, after denoising with neutral dialogue baselines, produces the resentful emotion vector -- a direction in the model's 5,376-dimensional representation space.

Logit Lens (Layer 40)

Tokens promoted/suppressed when the resentful vector is projected through the unembedding matrix.

Promoted:

`S`	0.485
`aggravated`	0.263
`愤`	0.261
`👎`	0.245
`L`	0.241

Suppressed:

`own`	-0.318
`soon`	-0.225
`随后`	-0.225
`serendip`	-0.219
`🤩`	-0.210